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Blowing Smoke: Why the Right Keeps Serving Up Whack-Job Fantasies about the Plot to Euthanize Grandma, Outlaw Christmas, and Turn Junior into a Raging Homosexual PDF

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Documents, dissects and deconstructs the myths that drive the conservative movement's growing reliance on persecution politics, examining the psychological and sociological appeal of conspiracy theories.
HAS AMERICA LOST ITS MARBLES?
  • Television sensation Glenn Beck warns of White House plots to institute fascism, communism, and other terrifying “isms.”
  • Radio titan Rush Limbaugh charges that a racist Obama regime encourages black schoolchildren to beat up white kids.
  • Evangelical
    luminary James Dobson frets that Christians will be arrested for
    thought crimes and people will be allowed to marry donkeys.
  • Protesters
    in knickers and colonial-style hats march on Washington with signs that
    order Hitler-like caricatures of President Obama to return to Kenya.

As
madness reigns, pundits, politicians, and cab drivers debate the source
of the hysteria. Some blame ignorance; some blame racism; some blame
the economy.

 

After poring over
mountains of political screeds and heedlessly subjecting himself to
countless hours of Fox News, author Michael Wolraich discovered the
secret formula that turns ordinary men and women into fire-breathing,
smoke-blowing, right wing maniacs. It’s “persecution politics” . .
again.

 

In Blowing Smoke,
Wolraich documents, dissects, and deconstructs the myths that underlie
the right’s growing reliance on the politics of persecution, from Joe
McCarthy to the Tea Party movement. In the process, he delivers an
original and compelling hypothesis with penetrating insight and
blistering wit.

 

At turns hilarious, disturbing, and edifying, Blowing Smoke is a must-read account of modern American politics.



















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